2 Samuel 22:44 (WEB)
You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.
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Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus II.77Book II
“For through their sin salvation came to the Gentiles, respecting whom the Christ who speaks in the prophecies says, “A people whom I did not know became subject to Me: they were obedient to the hearing of My ear;” and, “I was found of them who sought Me not; I became manifest to those who inquired not after Me.”” — editor's note: Cf. 2 Sam. xxii. 44, 45.
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Tertullian
“For “a people,” he says, “whom I knew not hath served me; in obedience of the ear it hath obeyed me.”” — editor's note: See Ps. xviii. 43, 44 (xvii. 44, 45 in LXX.), where the Eng. ver. has the future; the LXX., like Tertullian, the past. Comp. 2 Sam. (in LXX. 2 Kings) xxii. 44,…
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Parallel passages
2 Samuel 22:44 and Psalm 18:43 share the same wording (18 words).
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Cited together in Against Celsus II.77.
Cited together in Against Celsus II.77.